A year and a half? Seriously?!?

I can't believe it has been well over a year since my last blog. In many ways I have avoided blogging because I was not able to be "without pretense" in so many ways, but these things are being worked out in me on a daily basis.

The two biggest events in the last several months:

The death of my grandmother

And

The birth of my son.

They are almost opposites, birth and death, male and female, old and young. But it almost seems to reinforce in my mind the idea that THE ONLY THING CONSTANT IN MY LIFE IS CHANGE. So often people refer to the "circle of life" and I realize that to everything there is a season...just as Ecclesiastes says.

I don't even know that tonight I am going to say much other than this...at least now I have broken the silence. I'm still here, still without pretense...